Cursor: Open Chat command not working

Bug Reports
22

what fixed it for me to use a custom hotkey is you have to set aichat.newchataction the same hotkey as chat: new chat to get similar behavior

23

New to cursor, just paid a new pro subscription and the first thing I’m trying (open chat) is not working. Had to come on a forum to find a suggestion on how to make it work.

I’m seeing this is not the first time it happened, maybe put some regression tests in place for such a core feature?

I’m not trying to be an ■■■ here, but I believe starting from a prompt in the chat is THE main feature of cursor no? This is not very friendly for new users, is all I’m saying.

24

Same - paying for Cursor has disabled all Cursor functionality. With no support to speak of, no way to contact Cursor to get a response, this is entering into fraudulent billing territory.

25

Hi there just updated to v0.47.5 and the chat is not opening anymore from shortcut or cmd palette same result. Very frustrating. Hope will be fixed soon or give us some workaround. Thanks

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26

Same here. CMD+K still working but not CMD+L nor the Open Chat command.

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27

I thought I messed up some settings. cmd+L doesn’t work, only cmd+K works for me in v0.47.5.

28

Same here, v0.46 was working fine.

After upgrade to v.0.47.5 it stopped opening from both:

  1. cmd + shift + p and “Cursor: Open chat”
  2. cmd + L
29

my tmp solution was

  1. download v0.46.11 from Downloads | Cursor - The AI Code Editor
  2. cmd + shift + p and search >preferences open user settings (JSON)
  3. paste
"update.enableWindowsBackgroundUpdates": false,
"update.mode": "none"
  1. restart
  2. it will not upgrade to new version unless asked
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30

Same here. Ctrl+L and Ctrl+I were not working anymore after the last update on:

Version: 0.47.5 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 53d6da1322f934a1058e7569ee0847b24879d180
Date: 2025-03-14T21:53:57.982Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

The Toggle AI Pane button on the top right was showing an empty pane.

Strangely, I’ve found a workaround by running the command Open Compose as Pane, which seems to be making Ctrl+I / Ctrl+L work again, even after restarting Cursor!

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31

yes, it solves the issue:

  1. cmd + shift + p
  2. search and run Open Compose as Pane

even after restart

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